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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7355159" data-attributes="member: 6803664"><p>I've had 3 to date.</p><p></p><p>#1: HotDQ, player. My best 5e dragon fight to date.</p><p>It was against the blue dragon in Greenfield. Some of us were up on the battlements of the keep helping reign fire down on a group of hobgoblins(?) keeping them pinned in place.</p><p>To disrupt us, the blue dragon started making strafing runs.</p><p>On one round, when it's breath weapon didn't recharge, the DM decided to have it come in to melee the character right next to me (our monk iirc) & dropped him to 0hp.</p><p>As it went fly away I said screw it & declared I was taking my op attack. This was almost certainly going to be pointless as the thing was as-yet unharmed. And I was currently shape-changed into a mastiff. </p><p>Roll to hit: Crit! Total damage: 4 </p><p>And then somebody (not me) pointed out that "Hey, wouldn't the dragon need to make that save {Str, DC11} vs being knocked prone?" DM said something along the lines of "Huh, I guess so" and promptly rolled a 2 on the D20. Well, as it wasn't an Ancient Blue....</p><p>The dragon was knocked prone! The DM rolled a d3 to see where it would land - 1-2: left (ground outside the wall), 3-4: on the parapet, 5+: right (ground inside the wall). It fell to the left. Outside the wall.</p><p>The DM gave me a reflex save to let go of the tail before I'd get drug over the parapet myself.</p><p></p><p>So In-game what you saw was a blue dragon swoop in, savage this guy manning a parapet, & as it's flying away a mastiff chases it down latching onto it's tail at the last moment causing the beast to lose control & crash into the ground at the base of the wall. In full view of the rest of the enemy troops.</p><p></p><p>In the next round the dragon picks itself up, flies away & quits the battle! </p><p>Apparently as scripted all we had to do to was x damage or land a crit to drive the dragon away.</p><p>And as the dragon was defeated in such a spectacularly humiliating way the DM ruled that that was enough to break the moral of the remaining dragon cult forces.</p><p>They beat a hasty retreat & we/the town took care of our wounded and dead.</p><p>Treasure gained: Nothing</p><p>Next session we'd track the cult back to their lair. </p><p>Thi game fizzled out before we ever fought another dragon, let alone Tiamat.</p><p></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------</p><p>#2 Rahasia, DM</p><p>I ran the group through a 5e conversion of this classic module. and by conversion I mean I simply opened the 5e MM & used the new stat blocks....</p><p>Anyways, there's a teleportation maze in the lower lv where one of the paths leads characters to an arena where assorted creatures are summoned based on wich entry was used. One of the possible results is a green dragon. As this module was written for 1980's Basic that was an 8hd dragon. Looks like a 7hd Green Dragon Wyrmling to me....</p><p>It wasn't a terribly hard or interesting fight. The arena is just a big open floor space, so no real terrain. 1/2 the party had ranged attacks. NONE of the party stood near enough each other to allow me to catch more than one of them when I could use the breath weapon. The dragons best option was to circle until it could breath as that cut out 1/2 the party attacking it. Nobody failed their save vs its 2 poison breath attacks. </p><p>And at only AC17 & 38 HP the fight only lasted 5 or 6 rounds.</p><p>Treasure: None</p><p></p><p></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------</p><p>#3 Storm Kings, player</p><p>Upon entering the temple where the All-Father oracle is located we had to fight our way through a bunch of barbarians & their small white dragon.</p><p>This fight was really boring. They charged us. The warlock dropped a Hunger of Hadar on most of them. My ranger & his griffon mount met the dragon head on & nearly took it down single-handedly. On the 3rd round an attack missed leaving the dragon with single digit HPs. Our other ranger split his bow attacks between the barbarians & the dragon. One arrow later....</p><p>The rest of the fight was pretty much a few rounds of mopping up the barbarians.</p><p>Treasure: ? I don't recall us getting anything from the dragon itself. But I walked away with some kind of magic fire opal. And we cut off its head as a trophy - wich has proven useful in impressing the giants later on <span style="font-size: 9px">(clearly they didn't realize how weak this dragon was....)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ccs, post: 7355159, member: 6803664"] I've had 3 to date. #1: HotDQ, player. My best 5e dragon fight to date. It was against the blue dragon in Greenfield. Some of us were up on the battlements of the keep helping reign fire down on a group of hobgoblins(?) keeping them pinned in place. To disrupt us, the blue dragon started making strafing runs. On one round, when it's breath weapon didn't recharge, the DM decided to have it come in to melee the character right next to me (our monk iirc) & dropped him to 0hp. As it went fly away I said screw it & declared I was taking my op attack. This was almost certainly going to be pointless as the thing was as-yet unharmed. And I was currently shape-changed into a mastiff. Roll to hit: Crit! Total damage: 4 And then somebody (not me) pointed out that "Hey, wouldn't the dragon need to make that save {Str, DC11} vs being knocked prone?" DM said something along the lines of "Huh, I guess so" and promptly rolled a 2 on the D20. Well, as it wasn't an Ancient Blue.... The dragon was knocked prone! The DM rolled a d3 to see where it would land - 1-2: left (ground outside the wall), 3-4: on the parapet, 5+: right (ground inside the wall). It fell to the left. Outside the wall. The DM gave me a reflex save to let go of the tail before I'd get drug over the parapet myself. So In-game what you saw was a blue dragon swoop in, savage this guy manning a parapet, & as it's flying away a mastiff chases it down latching onto it's tail at the last moment causing the beast to lose control & crash into the ground at the base of the wall. In full view of the rest of the enemy troops. In the next round the dragon picks itself up, flies away & quits the battle! Apparently as scripted all we had to do to was x damage or land a crit to drive the dragon away. And as the dragon was defeated in such a spectacularly humiliating way the DM ruled that that was enough to break the moral of the remaining dragon cult forces. They beat a hasty retreat & we/the town took care of our wounded and dead. Treasure gained: Nothing Next session we'd track the cult back to their lair. Thi game fizzled out before we ever fought another dragon, let alone Tiamat. ------------------------------------------------------- #2 Rahasia, DM I ran the group through a 5e conversion of this classic module. and by conversion I mean I simply opened the 5e MM & used the new stat blocks.... Anyways, there's a teleportation maze in the lower lv where one of the paths leads characters to an arena where assorted creatures are summoned based on wich entry was used. One of the possible results is a green dragon. As this module was written for 1980's Basic that was an 8hd dragon. Looks like a 7hd Green Dragon Wyrmling to me.... It wasn't a terribly hard or interesting fight. The arena is just a big open floor space, so no real terrain. 1/2 the party had ranged attacks. NONE of the party stood near enough each other to allow me to catch more than one of them when I could use the breath weapon. The dragons best option was to circle until it could breath as that cut out 1/2 the party attacking it. Nobody failed their save vs its 2 poison breath attacks. And at only AC17 & 38 HP the fight only lasted 5 or 6 rounds. Treasure: None ------------------------------------------------------- #3 Storm Kings, player Upon entering the temple where the All-Father oracle is located we had to fight our way through a bunch of barbarians & their small white dragon. This fight was really boring. They charged us. The warlock dropped a Hunger of Hadar on most of them. My ranger & his griffon mount met the dragon head on & nearly took it down single-handedly. On the 3rd round an attack missed leaving the dragon with single digit HPs. Our other ranger split his bow attacks between the barbarians & the dragon. One arrow later.... The rest of the fight was pretty much a few rounds of mopping up the barbarians. Treasure: ? I don't recall us getting anything from the dragon itself. But I walked away with some kind of magic fire opal. And we cut off its head as a trophy - wich has proven useful in impressing the giants later on [SIZE=1](clearly they didn't realize how weak this dragon was....)[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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